Thursday, September 04, 2014

LOONY TUNES NO 102

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How to Kill Markets and Add to Poverty

“Assisting the Invisible Hand: contested relations between market, state and society

by Wim Dubbink and W. Dubbink. Issue in BusinessEthics

“Modern liberal democracies are troubled by public problems in which the free market is no innocent bystander. It is therefore generally acknowledged that the market must be controlled. Assisting the Invisible Hand is an investigation into contemporary thinking on controlling the market, especially with regard to the problem of dealing with environmental issues.”

“Henry Spearman, the balding economics professor with a knack for solving crimes, returns in "The Mystery of the Invisible Hand"--a clever whodunit of campus intrigue, stolen art, and murder. Having just won the Nobel Prize, Spearman accepts an invitation to lecture at Monte Vista University. He arrives in the wake of a puzzling art heist with plans to teach a course on art and economics--only to be faced with the alleged suicide of womanizing artist-in-residence Tristan Wheeler. When it becomes clear that Wheeler had serious enemies and a murderer is in their midst, Henry Spearman is on the case.”

2 Comments:

Airthsmith did not have vote in th 18th century franchise. What he might have voted for is beyond us. He was a Hanovarian in royalty matters, not a Jacobite, we know and favored freer trade. he was critical of economic policy and much social policy.How he would vote in the 2014 referendum is unknowable.Gavin